Madison Warner Fairbanks's Reviews > A Lady for a Duke

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Historical queer romance.
Viola is assumed dead at Waterloo and takes the opportunity to reinvent and restart her life the way she wants to live. When she encounters the Duke of Gracewood years later she’d shocked at his depression and overall hiding from life.
Voila helps Gracewood heal.

Emotional and heavy with powerful society hazards and facing is down.
Viola is so confident in her lifestyle, and even when she’s not, she has the full support and backing of family. Her transition and life is simply accepted. It’s wonderful.
A detailed epilogue adds depth and hope for the future.
Overall great if longer than an average historical romance which was my main complaint. There were at least a couple of threads that seemed to go off on a tangent before circling back.

🎧 I listened to an audiobook which was Narrated by Kay Eluvian. What a wonderful performance. From depression to joy and every emotion in-between, plus young children to adults, the vocalizing is clear, gripping and engulfing. I did speed this up to 1.5 for conversational comfort.
4.5

I received a copy of this from NetGalley and Hachette Audio.